Quotes About Strength

Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so sensitive! We are all of us pretty sturdy asses and she-asses.

Courageous, untroubled, mocking, violent—thus does Wisdom want us: she is a woman and always loves only a warrior.

Para o homem que tem uma convicção, ela é a sua espinha dorsal.

Reduce man to a single type and he is certain to succumb, sooner or later, to the inevitable disaster that his one type cannot cope with.

Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.

Imagine a large circle and in the center of it rays of light that spread out to the circumference. The light in the center is God; each of us is a ray. The closer the rays are to the center, the closer the rays are to one another. The closer we live to God, the closer we are bound to our neighbor; the farther we are from God, the farther we are from one another. The more each ray departs from its center, the weaker it becomes; and the closer it gets to the center, the stronger it becomes.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing. It wait on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

We grow weary, of course, but God is unwearied in giving us new strength.

Truth does grow, but it grows homogeneously, like an acorn into an oak; it does not swing in the breeze, like a weathercock. The leopard does not change his spots nor the Ethiopian his skin, though the leopard be put in bars or the Ethiopian in pink tights. The nature of certain things is fixed, and none more so than the nature of truth. Truth may be contradicted a thousand times, but that only proves that it is strong enough to survive a thousand assaults.

It meant nothing to teach men to be good unless He also gave them the power to be good

There is no door through which tears do not pass.

Before He gives strength, He makes us feel our emptiness.

He often chooses weak instruments in order that His power might be manifested; otherwise it would seem that the good was done by the clay, rather than by the Spirit.

The Divine Savior never said to His Apostles: "Be good and you will not suffer" but He did say: "In this world you shall have tribulation.

Communism is strong only when it borrows some of the moral indignation that has been inherited from the Hebraic-Christian traditions;

Le courage ne consiste pas à ne point être ému en face d'un danger, mais à surmonter son émotion: c'est pour cela qu'un enfant peut être aussi courageux qu'un homme.

Life is like a rose. A few thorns don't make it any less beautiful.

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

No tengas vergüenza de llorar. Tampoco de no llorar.)

J'apprenais qu'il peut être plus difficile de faire changer d'idée un enfant aimant qu'un homme armé de toute sa force.

He is flawless, without a blemish. Majesic . . . muscular.

I had been able to break the curse myself. I'd had to have reason enough, love enough to do it, to find the will and the strength.